“Is there anything more gratifying than a Reset Button? When your cell phone is acting finicky, you reset it and suddenly the world returns to normal, right? Turns out there are a bunch of household items that have one, and knowing a problem can be fixed by pushing a button — instead of shouting and …
Category: Flourishing
Redefine Toughness
Using the legendary football coach Bear Bryant in the first chapter is a great method for capturing a sport-minded person’s attention to continue reading. After all, even the non-football fans living in the southern United States are familiar with Bryant’s accomplishments on the gridiron. Just look at how often any mention of football at a …
Spiritual Arteriogram
How’s your heart? Not a question you typically hear someone ask a healthy person. It’s an inquiry reserved for a patient on the mend, someone recovering from by-pass surgery, or perhaps an angioplasty. However, while reading Gods at War this week, Kyle Idleman was suggesting that perhaps I needed to consider the health of my …
Stick-to-itiveness
Post-it Notes…this is the answer I provide to students when a discussion arises over the question, “What do you wish you had invented?” Not only would I be financially secure, I would have been responsible for creating an item with perfect balance—enough stickiness to adhere where it’s needed, but not too much that it destroys …
Eulogy Virtues
How do you want to be remembered? An awkward question to say the least, but one, I propose, if more people would ask it, might create a better world. Some people choose not to consider their own mortality, but we’ve all heard some variation of the saying, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” We …
I Quit
Dear University President, I Quit…those words appear on a sheet of paper rolling upward from an old manual green typewriter on the front cover of a workbook created by Jeffrey L. Buller for ATLAS leadership training which addresses the Great Resignation that is currently being experienced in higher education. In the following pages, Buller shares …
Quiet Quitting
The Great Resignation…I am uncertain who first mentioned this phrase to me, nor do I recall the context of the conversation; however, I do remember being encouraged to read about this phenomenon. And it doesn’t take much persuasion for the investigative side of me to start digging, in efforts to learn more about a topic …
Functioning Not Flourishing
My sincerest apologies to anyone within the sound of my voice who is becoming so exhausted by my use of the word flourishing that you are ready to strangle me. Enamored by the word several years ago, it encapsulates the idea in my mind of what optimal health and human performance looks like, and the …
Reconceptualizing Time
It’s March 13, 2020, and as we sit at the dinner table preparing to enjoy a deep-dish pepperoni pizza, the creative slogan, from the official pizza of the NCAA, printed across the side of the cardboard box asks, “Who will make the cut?” My response to this inquiry on that particular day was, “No one, …
Belly Button
I know something about you that you usually keep hidden from the majority of the world. It’s not a secret, but you tend to keep it private…Guess what? You, my friend, have a Belly Button! Not a topic that regularly arises in conversation, does it? However, it is indeed a fact of human existence—you have …
Flourishing @ Life 